Raedon 8500 / GF3 Ti 500 on AGP2X

[katana]

My old BX mainbroad only support AGP 1x/2x
I'm not planning to upgrade it soon while I would like to install a Radeon 8500 or GF3 Ti 500 display card on it.

How would the performance be affected if the mainbroad do not support AGP 4x ??

 

[flamethrower205]

Oh man, don't even think about it. Bad move. You are cutting bandwith from vid card to CPU in half!

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[katana]

I'm not asking do u guys support me to so or not, I'm asking how great will the performance be affected

Of course I know this will cut the bandwidth by half, but Raedon 8500 & GF3 Ti 500 should still unable to use up the whole bandwidth of AGP 4x. I want to know how much performance the card can preserve if run on AGP 2x

 

[Guest]

I don't think the performance will be affected by much. I tried my brothers GeForce 2 Ultra on my system, his is AGP4x, mine's AGP2x. I tried 3D-Mark 2001 on both and mine only scored a little less than his. Newer cards probably use a little more bandwidth, but according to Tom's reviews I don't expect it to be that much more. Maybe when he gets his new Ti500 I'll try it on mine first.

 

[Matisaro]

ON my gf3 going from agp 4x to 2x loses me an incredibly, 100 pts in 3dmark 2001, we dont take advantage of the 4x agp, so feel free.

PS: the gf3 ti 500 is a better card.

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

 

[flamethrower205]

Really, odd, thought it would have been more. Hmm, I think I'll be using 4X AGP more when I OC to 300MHz GPU and 700MHz RAM. BTW, if I have water cooled heatsink over RAM and OC it to 700Mhz, think it can stand it?

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